Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actress Britt Ekland and her estranged husband Jim McDonnell were forced to slash £200,000 off the price of their five-bedroom home in Beverly Hills to clinch a sale . |
| 2 | She was in East Kilbride to give a masterclass to promising young players . |
| 3 | Earlier , 270 candles were lit after a ceremony attended by 1,000 local people in Dryfesdale cemetery to dedicate a garden of remembrance . |
| 4 | The talks at Akkerman had apparently cleared up disagreements with the Turks , but the Shah , and particularly his son , believed that the Russian domestic crisis of December 1825 had created enough uncertainty in St Petersburg to justify a challenge to the Russo-Persian treaty of 1813 . |
| 5 | The seven nuns stepped from the safe enclosure of the Carmel Convent in Nunnery Lane to face a voyage on a cargo ship followed by a 1,000 kilometre drive through the Kalahari desert . |
| 6 | ‘ Mentally handicapped ’ is the most common term used in Great Britain to describe a section of the public who possess a lower than average level of intelligence . |
| 7 | What symbol do they use out in New Zealand to mark a helicopter landing pad ? ) |
| 8 | If it did n't cost quite so much to get there ( typical return fare London-Auckland is currently about £1,150 it would make good financial sense to use the excellent training facilities that exist in New Zealand to obtain a PPL , and it certainly is a wonderful place to build up low-cost hours among some of the world 's most magnificent surroundings . |
| 9 | My right hon. Friend will be meeting President Bush this evening after my right hon. Friend 's arrival in New York to chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council . |